A Christmas Card From a Muslim DaughterWhat's Your Reaction: facebook Twitter stumble reddit del.ico.usAmazingInspiringFunnyScaryHotCrazyImportantWeird Read More: Annunciation , Christianity , Christians , Christmas , Islam , Jesus Christ , Mary , Muslim View Of Jesus , Muslims , Quran , Surat Maryam , Virgin Birth , Religion News 11099views Email Comments11 When I became a Muslim thirteen years ago this month, I left behind the Christmas traditions my family celebrated every year of my childhood. My mother was able to transform our Southern California home into a Winter Wonderland as soon as we walked in the door; it may have been 75 degrees and sunny outside, but inside we felt we were in a Currier and Ives world of red velvet beribboned pine boughs, twinkling lights and beautiful music.…

Home / Headlines / "Islam is the Solution" - Media Monitors Network (MMN)"Islam is the Solution"by Uri Avnery(Saturday, December 4, 2010)"In Turkey, the Ataturk revolution is now threatened by the upsurge of a rejuvenated Islam. In Israel, the new Hebrew nation is under siege by a fundamentalist, aggressive Judaism. All over the Arab world, the situation is worse....To put it bluntly: secular nationalism has not delivered. It has brought no real independence, no freedom, no economic and technological breakthrough."First, an apology: I am not going to write about the Wikileaks.I like gossip as much as the next (wo)man. The leaks provide a lot of it, interspersed with some real information.But there is nothing really new there. The information only confirms what any intelligent person could have worked out already. If…

Leaked Cables Show U.S. Pressured Saudis to Accept Copenhagen AccordThe handful of climate-related cables--among the hundreds of thousands of secret and unclassified messages released by the whistle-blower organization Wikileaks--show the United States put climate change at the center of its foreign policy relationship with the oil-producing giantBy Lisa Friedman and Climatewire November 30, 2010 CLIMATE DIPLOMACY: The Obama administration leaned heavily on Saudi Arabia to associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord climate change agreement, confidential State Department memos show. Image: Pete Souza, courtesy whitehouse.gov The Obama administration leaned heavily on Saudi Arabia to associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord climate change agreement, confidential State Department memos show.The handful of climate-related cables -- among the hundreds of thousands of secret and unclassified messages released by the whistle-blower organization Wikileaks -- show…